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[[Image:Nuvola_filesystems_www.png|25px]] Resources

 * Public domain resources
 * Sources for articles (template)
 * Cleanup resources
 * Image help category
 * Page protection
 * Standard letters requesting permission to use copryright works
 * Standard letters for dealing with violations of Wikipedia's license
 * Standard greetings for new users
 * Software tools to help editing Wikipedia

Lists

 * Category of Wikipedia related articles
 * Special pages
 * List of WikiProjects ( where people interested in specific topics work together )
 * List of stub types ( stubs are very short articles that need expanding )
 * List of templates

How to...

 * How-to articles category
 * How to start a new page
 * How to edit a page (Wiki markup)
 * How to write a great article
 * How to categorise
 * Redirect
 * How to create an article series
 * Contributing
 * Improving articles
 * Picture tutorial (Image use policy)
 * Graphics tutorials
 * How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
 * Upload files to Wikipedia
 * Requested moves
 * Merging & moving pages
 * How to archive a talk page
 * How to archive Current Events
 * Linking Wikipedia articles in different languages
 * Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
 * Link to related articles on sister projects

Syntax help

 * Links
 * Lists
 * Table format
 * Quick guide to templates
 * Templates
 * Redirect
 * Mathematical markup in TeX
 * Infobox
 * EasyTimeline syntax
 * WikiHiero syntax &mdash; warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)

Special characters

 * Turkish characters
 * Romanian characters


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[[Image:Nuvola apps agent.png|23px]] Policies & guidelines

 * Overview of policies
 * List of policies and guidelines
 * List of official policies
 * List of guidelines
 * Policy on permanent deletion of pages
 * Images and multimedia

Manual Of Style

 * Biographies
 * China related articles
 * Command-line examples
 * Dashes
 * Dates & numbers
 * Disambiguation
 * Headings
 * Ireland related articles
 * Japan related articles
 * Links
 * Mathematics
 * Pronunciation
 * Titles
 * Trademarks
 * How to link to Wikimedia projects

Other guidance

 * Naming conventions
 * Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
 * Captions
 * Categorisation
 * Categorisation of people
 * Footnotes
 * Explaining jargon
 * Lists
 * Tables
 * Pictures
 * Proper names
 * Creating Sections
 * WikiProjects (writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines)
 * Contributing to articles outside your native language
 * Technical terms & definitions


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How to resolve conflicts

 * Stay cool!
 * Be nice to newcomers
 * Alert others
 * Request assistance from a members' advocate
 * Resolving disputes
 * Arbitration policy

For administrators

 * Administrator nominations
 * Administrators page
 * List of administrators
 * Administration FAQ
 * Administrator's reading list
 * Bureaucrats
 * Elections
 * Meta
 * Purge
 * Fix cut & paste moves
 * Page protection



Misc

 * MediaWiki user's guide
 * Meta-Wiki ( For essays and discussions about topics related to Wikipedia. )
 * Customizing your display with CSS
 * Edit with an external editor
 * Category of Wikipedia related articles
 * Contingency page for when the main Wikipedia server is down

Technical information

 * The MediaWiki software
 * Bug reports and feature requests
 * Browser notes
 * Bots
 * Database download
 * Export page(s) in XML
 * Problems editing long articles


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